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Unlike English, Italian switches between using "have" and "be" to express the past tense. What determines which verb to use, and why does the past participle act like an adjective sometimes? Find out inside!
Apologies for the video and audio quality, this was a bit of a rush job - see you in 2021!
SOURCES:
Bentley, Delia, and Thórhallur Eythórsson. “Auxiliary Selection and the Semantics of Unaccusativity.” Lingua, vol. 114, no. 4, 2004, pp. 447–471., doi:10.1016/s0024-3841(03)00068-8.
Burzio, Luigi. “Intransitive Verbs and Italian Auxiliaries.” MIT, 1981.
Sorace, Antonella. “Gradients in Auxiliary Selection with Intransitive Verbs.” Language, vol. 76, no. 4, 2000, pp. 859–890., doi:10.2307/417202.
Unlike English, Italian switches between using "have" and "be" to express the past tense. What determines which verb to use, and why does the past participle act like an adjective sometimes? Find out inside!
Apologies for the video and audio quality, this was a bit of a rush job - see you in 2021!
SOURCES:
Bentley, Delia, and Thórhallur Eythórsson. “Auxiliary Selection and the Semantics of Unaccusativity.” Lingua, vol. 114, no. 4, 2004, pp. 447–471., doi:10.1016/s0024-3841(03)00068-8.
Burzio, Luigi. “Intransitive Verbs and Italian Auxiliaries.” MIT, 1981.
Sorace, Antonella. “Gradients in Auxiliary Selection with Intransitive Verbs.” Language, vol. 76, no. 4, 2000, pp. 859–890., doi:10.2307/417202.
